4th grade Colorado History Mural Underway

We receive a grant from ROCV to create a mural depicting Colorado History. Students in 4th grade are studying this so they came to art class with a plethora of background knowledge for ideas.  We collaborated with Ms. Carabell or librarian for this project. Students did a significant amount research and then drew sketches. They have painted the background and they are now working on sketches for the historical events.  I will post more photos and the mural progresses.

4th grade scratch art

Students demonstrated using of a variety of line to show value and texture in their scratch art designs.

Linocut Prints

3rd Collograph printmaking

Collography is a  printmaking process process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood).  Students learned about different forms of printmaking and talked about how the process of building a collography plate  is similar to making a collage.  Here are some students' work

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